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| an economic buyer is a person who: Lean B2B Étienne Garbugli, 2022-03-22 Get from Idea to Product/Market Fit in B2B. The world has changed. Nowadays, there are more companies building B2B products than there’s ever been. Products are entering organizations top-down, middle-out, and bottom-up. Teams and managers control their budgets. Buyers have become savvier and more impatient. The case for the value of new innovations no longer needs to be made. Technology products get hired, and fired faster than ever before. The challenges have moved from building and validating products to gaining adoption in increasingly crowded and fragmented markets. This, requires a new playbook. The second edition of Lean B2B is the result of years of research into B2B entrepreneurship. It builds off the unique Lean B2B Methodology, which has already helped thousands of entrepreneurs and innovators around the world build successful businesses. In this new edition, you’ll learn: - Why companies seek out new products, and why they agree to buy from unproven vendors like startups - How to find early adopters, establish your credibility, and convince business stakeholders to work with you - What type of opportunities can increase the likelihood of building a product that finds adoption in businesses - How to learn from stakeholders, identify a great opportunity, and create a compelling value proposition - How to get initial validation, create a minimum viable product, and iterate until you're able to find product/market fit This second edition of Lean B2B will show you how to build the products that businesses need, want, buy, and adopt. |
| an economic buyer is a person who: Disciplined Entrepreneurship Bill Aulet, 2013-08-12 24 Steps to Success! Disciplined Entrepreneurship will change the way you think about starting a company. Many believe that entrepreneurship cannot be taught, but great entrepreneurs aren’t born with something special – they simply make great products. This book will show you how to create a successful startup through developing an innovative product. It breaks down the necessary processes into an integrated, comprehensive, and proven 24-step framework that any industrious person can learn and apply. You will learn: Why the “F” word – focus – is crucial to a startup’s success Common obstacles that entrepreneurs face – and how to overcome them How to use innovation to stand out in the crowd – it’s not just about technology Whether you’re a first-time or repeat entrepreneur, Disciplined Entrepreneurship gives you the tools you need to improve your odds of making a product people want. Author Bill Aulet is the managing director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship as well as a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. For more please visit http://disciplinedentrepreneurship.com/ |
| an economic buyer is a person who: Introduction to Business Lawrence J. Gitman, Carl McDaniel, Amit Shah, Monique Reece, Linda Koffel, Bethann Talsma, James C. Hyatt, 2024-09-16 Introduction to Business covers the scope and sequence of most introductory business courses. The book provides detailed explanations in the context of core themes such as customer satisfaction, ethics, entrepreneurship, global business, and managing change. Introduction to Business includes hundreds of current business examples from a range of industries and geographic locations, which feature a variety of individuals. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of business concepts, with attention to the knowledge and skills necessary for student success in this course and beyond. This is an adaptation of Introduction to Business by OpenStax. You can access the textbook as pdf for free at openstax.org. Minor editorial changes were made to ensure a better ebook reading experience. Textbook content produced by OpenStax is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. |
| an economic buyer is a person who: Strategic Selling Robert Bruce Miller, Stephen E. Heiman, Tad Tuleja, 1985 |
| an economic buyer is a person who: The Qualified Sales Leader John McMahon, 2021-04-22 The learnings in The Qualified Sales Leader will help you and your sales team sell more, make more money and grow your career in enterprise sales. Luca Lazzaron-CRO Sprinklr Almost monthly someone asks me, “When are you going to write a book”. When I ask, “Why?”, people tell me, “Because no one has written a sales leadership book with practical, solutions to real life issues in enterprise SaaS sales forces”, Why: 62% of sales reps fail, not because they couldn’t sell but because they were assigned the wrong accounts. Sales leaders don’t align skillsets to account complexity. Sales rep attrition at most SaaS companies is over 20% Sales leaders can’t recruit A players Sales Leaders don’t coach their reps on deal advancement issues Most sales leaders are “glorified scorekeepers” Most sales leader don’t motivate their sales team They’re focused on deals, not rep competency Sales forecasts are inaccurate because most reps game the CRM system. Sales team leaders lack qualification of sales stage exit criteria Many salesforces only win 50% of their proof of concepts They can’t frame a winning POC Criteria 8 of 10 executive buyers say the sales meetings they take are a waste of time. Sales reps lack the ability to sell business value. 42% of reps in enterprise sales say one of the top 3 biggest challenges is to establish urgency. Reps don’t quantify critical business pain to create a buying influence. Reps can’t find high-level business champions, only low-level coaches They can’t find pain above the noise. Many reps find pain but can’t attract a champion They’re selfishly focused on closing a sale instead of earning trust. Most reps say they feel out of control during the sales process. Reps can’t find a champion to help them control the process. 50% of reps say they can’t overcome price objections while companies struggle to increase the average deal size. Most sales reps are vending, not selling. Their reps aren’t immersed in the customer conversation. The reps are “thinking”, not “knowing” the key elements of the customer use case Top sales leaders will find the answers to these issues and more in The Qualified Sales Leader |
| an economic buyer is a person who: Getting Started in Consulting Alan Weiss, 2009-03-16 THE UNBEATABLE, UPDATED, COMPREHENSIVE GUIDEBOOK FOR FIRST-TIME CONSULTANTS GETTING STARTED IN CONSULTING More people than ever are making the jump from corporate offices to home offices, taking control of their futures, being their own bosses, and starting their own consultancies. Consulting is a bigger business than ever and growing every day. For almost a decade, Alan Weiss's Getting Started in Consulting has been an indispensable resource for anyone who wants to strike out on his own and start a new consulting business. It provides a rich source of expert advice and practical guidance, and it shows you how you can combine low overhead and a high degree of organization to add up to a six- or even seven-figure income. You'll learn everything you need to know about financing your business, marketing your services, writing winning proposals, meeting legal requirements, setting fees, keeping the books, and much more. This new Third Edition of Getting Started in Consulting is more comprehensive, up to date, and practical than ever. In addition to the nuts-and-bolts basics, you'll also get a wealth of new information and resources: How to leverage new technologies to lower your business costs and increase your profits A budget sampler that shows you how best to maximize an initial start-up investment of $5,000, $10,000, or $20,000 Free downloadable tools and forms to help you design and start your business quickly and easily New interviews with consultants who achieved rapid success, including their personal stories and most effective techniques Brand-new references, examples, and appendices If your dream in life is to get out of the office and out on your own, consulting is a great way to make it happen. Make sure you do it right—and do it profitably—with Getting Started in Consulting, Third Edition. |
| an economic buyer is a person who: ALWAYS BE QUALIFYING Darius Lahoutifard, 2023-10-21 In the past few years, companies large and small have called on me to get help with their non-performing sales team. The described symptoms are different from one company to another. Some need more revenue. Others complain about unreliable forecasts, with deals slipping constantly from one quarter to another before being lost or even abandoned a few quarters later. Some CEOs notice unproductive sales teams with an unusually high number of non-quota-carrying people needed in the sales force, hitting the bottom line hard. All these symptoms are related to the same illness: inability to qualify. Since most sales teams put in place organizations including SDR (Sales Development Representatives) or BDR (Business Development Representatives) who qualify leads for Account Managers, there is a wrong unstated assumption, widely spread, that once a lead is qualified, the inside sales or field sales will have to work on them until they are won or lost. Ongoing qualification is often the issue. Qualification is not a binary step of the sales process. Qualification is a mindset and a habit to apply throughout the sales process, from the first call to closing. This book covers both the Why and the How of sales qualification. I was an early sales leader at PTC where the MEDDIC methodology took shape. I am also the founder of MEDDIC Academy, the first platform to bring the qualification methodology online. This book describes the M.E.D.D.I.C. and the MEDDPICC® sales methodology in depth. This is not a book of theories, research, or academic concepts but pure execution techniques with practical recipes. At a high level, MEDDIC is a checklist that helps sales professionals reveal the gaps in an opportunity and execute correctly to fill those gaps and close the deal or drop it early. This book is an excellent complement to the training and workshops we deliver online and in-person globally. |
| an economic buyer is a person who: The New Strategic Selling Robert B. Miller, Stephen E. Heiman, Tad Tuleja, 2008-11-16 The Book that Sparked A Selling Revolution In 1985 one book changed sales and marketing forever. Rejecting manipulative tactics and emphasizing process, Strategic Selling presented the idea of selling as a joint venture and introduced the decade's most influential concept, Win-Win. The response to Win-Win was immediate. And it helped turn the small company that created Strategic Selling, Miller Heiman, into a global leader in sales development with the most prestigious client list and sought-after workshops in the industry. Now Strategic Selling has been updated and revised for a new century of sales success. The New Strategic Selling This new edition of the business classic confronts the rapidly evolving world of business-to-business sales with new real-world examples, new strategies for confronting competition, and a special section featuring the most commonly asked questions from the Miller Heiman workshops. Learn: * How to identify the four real decision makers in every corporate labyrinth * How to prevent sabotage by an internal deal-killer * How to make a senior executive eager to see you * How to avoid closing business that you'll later regret * How to manage a territory to provide steady, not boom and bust, revenue * How to avoid the single most common error when dealing with the competition. |
| an economic buyer is a person who: Value-Based Fees Alan Weiss, 2021-09-15 The latest edition of the leading guide to consulting engagement pricing, from the “Rock Star of Consulting” Alan Weiss In the newly revised Third Edition of Value-Based Fees: How to Charge – and Get – What You’re Worth, best-selling author, speaker and renowned consultant Dr. Alan Weiss delivers a thoroughly updated guide to proposing, and receiving, consistently high fees that are based on the value you deliver to each client you serve. The author walks you through the many reasons that time-and-materials pricing models are outdated and inadequate and how to convert existing clients to your new value-based fee model. He also discusses fundamental new developments in consulting, including the remote delivery of services, the waning market power of the consulting giants, economic globalization, and the shift from project work to advisory work. Among the step-by-step techniques and strategies provided in the book, you’ll find: How to establish value-based fees, including determining your unique value and creating a “good deal” dynamic How to create, capitalize on, and market to trusted advisor relationships How to implement fee increases immediately, prevent and rebut fee objections, create consulting products, and explore lucrative new fields Perfect for newcomers to the consulting field as well as time-tested veterans, Value-Based Fees is an indispensable guide for every solo consultant, entrepreneur, and small consulting firm. |
| an economic buyer is a person who: Practicing Organization Development William J. Rothwell, Jacqueline M. Stavros, Roland L. Sullivan, Arielle Sullivan, 2009-10-09 Completely revised, this new edition of the classic book offers contributions from experts in the field (Warner Burke, David Campbell, Chris Worley, David Jamieson, Kim Cameron, Michael Beer, Edgar Schein, Gibb Dyer, and Margaret Wheatley) and provides a road map through each episode of change facilitation. This updated edition features new chapters on positive change, leadership transformation, sustainability, and globalization. In addition, it includes exhibits, activities, instruments, and case studies, supplemental materials on accompanying Website. This resource is written for OD practitioners, consultants, and scholars. |
| an economic buyer is a person who: Selling the Right Way, Prayerfully God's Way Jim Abraham, 2011-12 Most sales publications cover selling exclusively from the world's point-of-view. They cover a topic or two that may peak the interest of the reader, but they leave out two elements that are critical to a Christian sales professional's success. What are those two essentials you need to know? They are: 1.) Where does God fit into your life as a salesperson, and 2.) What else do you need to know to be a long-term sales pro? You see, selling is more than one or two techniques that will manipulate your prospect into buying. It's more than a few closing techniques that will seal-the-deal. Sales is an ability you are given, by God, to help other people solve their problems. You are a problem solver, an advocate for your client. This book will help you become the best you can be, with prayer and God's guidance. |
| an economic buyer is a person who: Buyer Personas Revised and Expanded Jim Kraus, Adele Revella, 2024-07-30 A fresh look into understanding your prospective customer's buying decisions to influence them and win more business Building on the groundbreaking success of the first edition, this newly revised and updated version of Buyer Personas enables marketers to stop wasting time and resources on their best guesses and start drilling down to understand what buyers truly care about—then harness this newfound knowledge to create strategies and messages that break through the clutter and reach buyers on their level. In a world where buyers frequently struggle to get the information they need to evaluate competitive alternatives and feel confident in their choices, this book lays out a step-by-step approach used by hundreds of companies to understand what buyers want to know and experience as they search for a solution to meet their needs, weigh their options, and make a buying decision. In this book, you'll learn: Why understanding the buying decision is far more important than knowing a few things about the individuals or roles involved in that decision How to develop a modern Buyer Persona based on five types of buying insights that will inform nearly every marketing and sales decision you make Why interviewing recent buyers is the best way to develop your Buyer Persona and how to do it effectively How to use AI and quantitative survey research to enhance your Buyer Persona Ways to use Buyer Persona insights to increase awareness of your products and services, drive consideration, and convert more business The revised and expanded Buyer Personas is a complete guide to go beyond benefit-heavy, undifferentiated marketing and focus only on what buyers care about most. It earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of entrepreneurs, executives, marketers, and other business professionals looking to influence their prospective buyers. |
| an economic buyer is a person who: Disciplined Entrepreneurship Workbook Bill Aulet, 2017-03-16 The essential companion to the book that revolutionized entrepreneurship Disciplined Entrepreneurship Workbook provides a practical manual for working the 24-step framework presented in Disciplined Entrepreneurship. Unlocking key lessons and breaking down the steps, this book helps you delve deeper into the framework to get your business up and running with a greater chance for success. You'll find the tools you need to sharpen your instinct, engage your creativity, work through hardship, and give the people what they want—even if they don't yet know that they want it. Real-world examples illustrate the framework in action, and case studies highlight critical points that can make or break you when your goal is on the line. Exercises and assessments help you nail down your strengths, while pointing out areas that could benefit from reinforcement—because when it comes to your business, good enough isn't good enough—better is always better. Disciplined Entrepreneurship transformed the way that professionals think about starting a company, and this book helps you dig into the proven framework to make your business dreams a reality. Delve deeper into the 24 steps to success Innovate, persevere, and create the product people want Internalize lessons learned from real-world entrepreneurs Test your understanding with exercises and case studies The book also includes new material on topics the author has found to be extremely useful in getting the most value out of the framework including Primary Market Research, Windows of Opportunity and Triggers. The book also introduces the Disciplined Entrepreneurship Canvas to track your progress on this journey. Starting a company is a serious undertaking, with plenty of risk and sacrifice to go around—so why not minimize the risk and make the outcome worth the sacrifice? Author Bill Aulet's 24-step framework is proven to build a successful business; the key is in how well you implement it. Disciplined Entrepreneurship Workbook helps you master the skills, tools, and mindset you need to get on your path to success. |
| an economic buyer is a person who: Million Dollar Consulting Toolkit Alan Weiss, 2012-06-12 The practical toolbox for readers of Million Dollar Consulting This useful guide provides specific checklists, guidelines, templates, and actual examples for every step of the consulting process. It covers marketing, sales, meetings, implementation, follow-up, invoicing, practice management, insurance, equipment, subcontracting, and scores of other elements. Thousands of people have bought Weiss's Million Dollar Consulting and started their own consultancy. Now, this handy resource goes hand-in-hand to provide all the tools new consultants need to enact all the recommendations and ideas in Million Dollar Consulting. Alan Weiss, PhD (East Greenwich, RI), has consulted for hundreds of organizations around the world, including Mercedes-Benz, Hewlett-Packard, Merck, Chase, American Press Institute, and the Times-Mirror Group. He is the author of 12 books, including Getting Started in Consulting (0-471-47969-1) and Organizational Consulting (0-471-26378-8). |
| an economic buyer is a person who: Sst® Dr. Arnold Tilden, 2009-03-16 SST ®: Successful Selling to Type, is based on the time-honored principle that relationships are crucial to successful selling. Even at the highest business-to-business levels, people still buy from people. But, people have different personalities and approaching them as though they are all the same is like a skilled craftsman using a single tool, the hammer. The single tool approach works well if all of your clients and prospects are nails. We know they are not. SST the Book provides an overview of this powerful business development model that has led to staggering improvement in sales performance. One client experienced a nearly 500% increase in sales with an experimental group using SST as contrasted to a control group without it. SST has been delivered around the globe (US, Europe, Asia & Persian Gulf) and clients cover a broad array of industries as reflected in this partial client list: AccuWeather, Barclays Global Investors, Credit Suisse, Fortis Bank, KPMG, Gettysburg College, Johnson Controls, Johns Hopkins University, Perkin Elmer, QlikTech, Penn State University (Smeal), Trane, United States Federal Reserve System and Wachovia. Chapters are dedicated to the essential SST tools as well as the core skills of questioning, listening, and customizing communication. The concluding chapter consists of drills and exercises to help you master SST and successfully implement it in the field. |
| an economic buyer is a person who: Marketing Organization Development William J Rothwell, Jong Gyu Park, Jae Young Lee, 2017-03-16 Organizational Development (OD) consultants often face dilemmas when they market their services because there is a gap between clients’ expectation and the actual role of OD consultants. This book is about how to overcome that dilemma by finding effective marketing strategies for a different approach to consulting. Marketing Organization Development: A How-To Guide for OD Consultants focuses on the challenges faced by internal and external consultants in marketing and selling their services. By distinguishing between performance consulting and Organization Development (OD) consulting, this book demonstrates why marketing and selling OD consulting services are unique. This book meets not only unique OD consultants’ needs by reflecting the philosophical background of OD and unique marketing challenges but the needs of Human Resource Development (HRD) managers’ need who are interested in promoting or selling their change interventions within their organizations. This comprehensive book: Reviews important terms and popular tools used in the marketing process and outlines the many roles a consultant must fill to obtain and keep the business (i.e., marketer, salesperson, brand manager, account management) .Describes the criteria for self-evaluation as an OD consultant. It examines how to identify your strengths and the competencies you need to develop based on OD competencies. Provides an introduction to actionable steps and resources for organization development, change management, and performance management consultants to evaluate unmet needs and opportunities through a niche market for consulting services. Covers how to communicate value to your target customers and how to brand your service. Describes various channels of OD marketing such as viral, word of mouth, and social media marketing. . Reviews selling tactics for l your consulting service and discusses the importance of having a defined sales process to which you adhere. |
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| an economic buyer is a person who: Buyer Personas Adele Revella, 2015-03-09 Named one of Fortune Magazine’s “5 Best Business Books” in 2015 See your offering through the buyer's eyes for more effective marketing Buyer Personas is the marketer's actionable guide to learning what your buyer wants and how they make decisions. Written by the world's leading authority on buyer personas, this book provides comprehensive coverage of a compelling new way to conduct buyer studies, plus practical advice on adopting the buyer persona approach to measurably improve marketing outcomes. Readers will learn how to segment their customer base, investigate each customer type, and apply a radically more relevant process of message selection, content creation, and distribution through the channels that earn the buyers' trust. Rather than relying on generic data or guesswork to determine what the buyer wants, the buyer persona approach allows companies to ask the buyer directly and obtain more precise and actionable guidance. Buyer personas are composite pictures of the people who buy solutions, services or products, crafted through a unique type of interview with the people the marketer wants to influence. This book provides step-by-step guidance toward implementing the buyer persona approach, with the advice of an internationally-respected expert. Learn who buys what, and why Understand your buyer's goals and how you can address them Tailor your marketing activities to your buyer's expectations See the purchase through the customer's eyes A recent services industry survey reports that 52 percent of their marketers have buyer personas, and another 28 percent expect to add them within the next two years – but only 14.6 percent know how to use them. To avoid letting such a valuable tool go to waste, access the expert perspective in Buyer Personas, and craft a more relevant marketing strategy. |
| an economic buyer is a person who: Emotional Intelligence for Sales Success Colleen Stanley, 2013 Why do salespeople frequently fail to execute-even when they know what they should do? |
| an economic buyer is a person who: Dirt Farmer's Son Terry A. Maurer, 2020-08-26 Terry A. Maurer's New Book Dirt Farmer's Son Shares A Beautiful Account Of A Life Across Adversities And Seemingly Insurmountable Challenges. Terry A. Maurer, a brilliant writer, has completed Dirt Farmer's Son: a gripping and potent true story about living on the farm during the 40s and 50s and pursuing education, business, and family life whilst battling health complications. Terry writes, it's a story of life: covering seventy-eight years (1942-2020) Dirt Farmer's Son is written for a broad audience who have witnessed times and for those who want to know what happened. It share stories of farm life during the '40s and '50s, Catholic military boarding-scchool, seminary, his wife's two kidney transplants, and the adoption of a Korean child. It also includes chapters on his chemical career and his bottled-water business. The book is well written and reads like a novel -- Amin Almuti, former Betchel VP It has everything in it: history, politics, all the happenings for the last 78 years, plus great pictures. It is 14 chapters of the life and times of the Dirt Farmer's Son from northern Michigan whose ancestors started out from Germany in 1857. -- The author Himself |
| an economic buyer is a person who: Professional Selling Dawn Deeter-Schmelz, Gary Hunter, Terry Loe, Ryan Mullins, Gregory Rich, Lisa Beeler, Wyatt Schrock, 2024-02-04 Formerly published by Chicago Business Press, now published by Sage Professional Selling covers key sales concepts and strategies by highlighting detailed aspects of each step in the sales process, from lead generation to closing. Co-authored by faculty from some of the most successful sales programs in higher education, the Second Edition also offers unique chapters on digital sales, customer business development strategies, and role play. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package. Contact your Sage representative to request a demo. Learning Platform / Courseware Sage Vantage is an intuitive learning platform that integrates quality Sage textbook content with assignable multimedia activities and auto-graded assessments to drive student engagement and ensure accountability. Unparalleled in its ease of use and built for dynamic teaching and learning, Vantage offers customizable LMS integration and best-in-class support. It′s a learning platform you, and your students, will actually love. LMS Cartridge: Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. Learn more. |
| an economic buyer is a person who: All For One Andrew Sobel, 2009-04-20 Corporate clients are demanding more value from their external advisors, and consolidating their business around a smaller number of firms. These trends are forcing a variety of service providers—from consulting firms to large banks—to confront a series of difficult challenges: How do we create an ‘all-for-one, one-for-all’ culture in which the whole is greater than the sum-of-the-parts and we succeed in leveraging our global network to deliver value to clients? How do we mobilize the right people, resources, and ideas—across a multitude of organizational and geographic boundaries—into each and every client relationship? How do we evolve from a trusted advisor to a trusted partner and build multi-year, institutional relationships? All for One answers these questions with an innovative and comprehensive model for developing enduring, institutional client relationships—what Andrew Sobel refers to as Level 6 Trusted Client Partnerships. It offers readers ten specific strategies that are thoroughly supported by case studies, best practices from leading firms, and implementation tools. The individual professional is principally responsible for five of these strategies, while the firm—the institution—must support and drive the other five. When you successfully execute against all ten of these building blocks, you develop long-term, professional-client partnerships that provide great value to the client and high levels of personal satisfaction and profitability for the service provider. |
| an economic buyer is a person who: The Consulting Bible Alan Weiss, 2021-05-14 The new edition of bestselling real-world guide to consultancy success, from the “Rock Star of Consulting” Alan Weiss The second edition of The Consulting Bible: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Expand a Seven-Figure Consulting Practice remains the most comprehensive and practical guide to the consulting profession, from launch to high growth, from marketing to implementation. Legendary consultant, speaker, and bestselling author Alan Weiss shows you how to create an independent or boutique consulting practice and take it to seven-figure success. Step-by-step, this invaluable resource guides you through attracting clients, maximizing your value, and achieving your career goals. In the decade since the first publication of The Consulting Bible, an array of significant developments has dramatically impacted the consulting profession: shifts in social consciousness, the Covid-19 pandemic, tele-consulting and virtual meetings, the globalization of the economy, the growth of social media, and many more. This exhaustively revised new edition provides specific approaches and techniques for mastering the new consulting environment and turning volatility and disruption into unlimited opportunities. Designed to help you become the authority and expert that organizations turn to again and again, this book is your one-stop resource for: Building a strong global brand that draws people to you Marketing remotely to reduce costs and allow for higher fees Mastering the latest implementation techniques Forging strong relationships with the buyers of a new generation Selecting the consulting methodology that best fits your requirements Writing proposals and creating testimonials and references Using advanced technology to sell and deliver your services Written for newcomers and veterans alike, The Consulting Bible: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Expand a Seven-Figure Consulting Practice, Second Edition, is essential reading for every solo consultant, entrepreneur, and principal of a small consulting firm. |
| an economic buyer is a person who: Disciplined Entrepreneurship Expanded & Updated Bill Aulet, 2024-03-27 An expanded & updated version of the award winning & bestselling one-stop entrepreneurial book used by hundreds of schools globally that has helped create or make better hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs Disciplined Entrepreneurship Expanded and Updated starts by combining the timeless and insightful principles of Disciplined Entrepreneurship with the practical tools found in the Disciplined Entrepreneurship Workbook into a single, comprehensive package. The book also has been updated with recent developments in the field and examples as well as a robust new library of additional resources. Author, entrepreneur, professor, and Managing Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, Bill Aulet systematically walks readers through exactly how to create a successful startup. This book presents a detailed, sequential—but not linear—integrated and proven 24-step framework that any entrepreneur can apply immediately to improve their chances of entrepreneurial success. Readers will also find: The number-one process reason that new ventures fail Entrepreneurship is not an art, but rather a craft that can be learned How the best idea or product is no assurance at all that you will win—there is much more Perfect for aspiring founders and entrepreneurs within existing organizations, Disciplined Entrepreneurship Expanded & Updated is also an invaluable resource for anyone who has already begun their entrepreneurial journey and needs practical, hands-on tools to help them take their business to the next level. |
| an economic buyer is a person who: Organization Development Joan V. Gallos, 2017-07-27 This is the third book in the Jossey-Bass Reader series, Organization Development: A Jossey-Bass Reader. This collection will introduce the key thinkers and contributors in organization development including Ed Lawler, Peter Senge, Chris Argyris, Richard Hackman, Jay Galbraith, Cooperrider, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Bolman & Deal, Kouzes & Posner, and Ed Schein, among others. Without reservations I recommend this volume to those students of organizational behavior who want an encyclopedia of OD to gain a perspective on the past, present, and future.... Jonathan D. Springer of the American Psychological Association. |
| an economic buyer is a person who: Successful Independent Consulting: Relationships That Focus on Mutual Benefit Johanna Rothman, 2023-04-30 Is Independent Consulting Your Next Role? You've been successful inside organizations, and now it's time to extend that success to potential clients. But you don't want to be a smarmy marketer. Instead, you'd like your clients to ask for you by name. Look no further. This practical guide to building your consulting engine and creating systems for your business has everything you need to become a successful independent consultant. You'll learn how to: - Assess your value so you can choose which problems to solve for your ideal clients. - Attract clients with continual content marketing. - Create relationships with people across the client organization and with other consultants - Set reasonable fees. - Create and manage your intellectual property. - Learn from the engagement to reassess your value. And much more. As you consult, you can assess and change your business model for the flexibility you need for your business. Buy this book to start now. Become a successful independent consultant on your terms. |
| an economic buyer is a person who: MEDDICC Andy Whyte, 2020-11-25 What do the world's most successful enterprise sales teams have in common? They rely on MEDDICC to make their sales process predictable and efficient. MEDDIC with one C was initially created by Dick Dunkel in 1996 when he was at PTC. Since then MEDDIC has evolved to be better known as MEDDICC or MEDDPICC and has proliferated across the world being the go-to choice for elite enterprise sales organizations. If you ever find yourself feeling any of the following symptoms with your deal, you could benefit from MEDDICC: Your buyer doesn't see the value of your solution? (aka they think you are expensive) You are unable to find, articulate and quantify Pain You don't have a Champion or at the very least a Coach helping you navigate and sell You find yourself unable to gain access to people with power and influence You don't know how the customer makes decisions You don't know who is involved in the decision-making process You find yourself surprised by things that come up in the sales process The decision criteria seem to move throughout the process, and you're constantly playing catch up Your Competition is landing strikes against you that you neither see coming nor are able to defend You lose track of where you stand in your deals Whether you are an individual contributor or a sales leader embracing MEDDICC will help you to beat those symptoms and take back control of your deal. Historically, learning MEDDICC has relied upon hands-on training, but now you can learn MEDDICC from an expert who uses it every day. The Book deconstructs MEDDICC into easy to understand and implement steps. Breaking down every letter of the acronym into actionable insights complemented by commentary on how MEDDICC can help sales organizations to revolutionize their sales execution and efficiency. In the words of the original creator of MEDDIC, Dick Dunkel: Whether you are an individual contributor or sales leader, my advice is that you should start to implement MEDDICCinto what you do straight away. Embrace MEDDICC, and you and your team will more clearly understand the WHY to yourprocess, and you'll begin to execute your customer interactions with more purpose and achieve better results.And like so many others before, you will begin to reap the rewards of having a well-qualified pipeline of opportunitieswith clearer paths to success. - Dick Dunkel, MEDDIC Creator. |
| an economic buyer is a person who: Business and Management Consulting Louise Wickham, Jeremy Wilcock, 2020 |
| an economic buyer is a person who: Start Up a Business Digital Book Set Bill Aulet, Joel Libava, Scott Gerber, Steve Gillman, 2014-03-04 |
| an economic buyer is a person who: Pricing and the Sales Force Andreas Hinterhuber, Stephan Liozu, 2015-09-16 Pricing and the Sales Force is the first book to link pricing strategy and the sales force together. Pricing strategy is now well established as an important means of driving profits for many organizations. Countless companies are now mastering price-setting. But what about price-getting – converting those list prices into the realized sales, and as a result, greater profitability? This is the domain of the sales force. A selection of the world’s leading specialists explore different aspects of sales force and pricing strategy integration: introduction: overview on the state of the art; building key capabilities: best practices for building sales force capabilities in pricing and value quantification; engaging the sales force: driving organizational change processes with the sales force; designing effective selling processes: designing and implementing processes that enable superior performance, and; aligning sales force incentives and building the infrastructure: insights into how to align sales force incentive schemes; tools and instruments to enable the sales force to perform. The third in Hinterhuber and Liozu’s successful pricing series, this book is essential reading for pricing strategy and sales scholars and practitioners. |
| an economic buyer is a person who: Sales Management Douglas J. Dalrymple, William L. Cron, Thomas E. DeCarlo, 2004 Through seven editions, Sales Management has provided readers with a comprehensive, practical approach to sales management. This book places special emphasis on current issues of managing strategic account relationships, team development, diversity in the work force, sales force automation, and ethical issues. |
| an economic buyer is a person who: The Equation of Sales Tim Gibbons, 2021-05-24 A practical guide to selling technology The Equation of Sales is the distillation of more than 20 years of sales experience into practical tools for people selling technology. Trust x Needs x Value = Successful Selling Trust, needs and value are the three things that a sales person must establish with any buyer, whether they are selling shoes or aeroplanes. People buy from people that they trust; people buy something that they need and they buy something that they perceive as valuable. If the sales person cannot establish all three, generally in that order, then they will struggle to sell. This book will help you to understand how to establish that trust, how to identify those needs and how to demonstrate value to your customer. As a result, you will make more sales and make more commission! The book is mainly aimed at people starting their careers in technology sales. It provides the basic tools to decide which customers to try to sell to, how to find out what they might need and how to persuade them that your solution is the most effective one. For people who have been working in sales for a number of years, the book provides great tips and hints and refreshes your knowledge about these things. It is not the only sales book you will ever need but it should be the first sales book that you need. It provides the foundation for further training and development. To help with that, it includes a workbook featuring an example product and sales person plus worksheets for you to complete so that you can immediately apply what you have read to your own product. |
| an economic buyer is a person who: The Four Steps to the Epiphany Steve Blank, 2020-03-17 The bestselling classic that launched 10,000 startups and new corporate ventures - The Four Steps to the Epiphany is one of the most influential and practical business books of all time. The Four Steps to the Epiphany launched the Lean Startup approach to new ventures. It was the first book to offer that startups are not smaller versions of large companies and that new ventures are different than existing ones. Startups search for business models while existing companies execute them. The book offers the practical and proven four-step Customer Development process for search and offers insight into what makes some startups successful and leaves others selling off their furniture. Rather than blindly execute a plan, The Four Steps helps uncover flaws in product and business plans and correct them before they become costly. Rapid iteration, customer feedback, testing your assumptions are all explained in this book. Packed with concrete examples of what to do, how to do it and when to do it, the book will leave you with new skills to organize sales, marketing and your business for success. If your organization is starting a new venture, and you're thinking how to successfully organize sales, marketing and business development you need The Four Steps to the Epiphany. Essential reading for anyone starting something new. The Four Steps to the Epiphany was originally published by K&S Ranch Publishing Inc. and is now available from Wiley. The cover, design, and content are the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated product. |
| an economic buyer is a person who: Coached to Lead Susan Battley, 2006-03-24 Coached to Lead is the first consumer’s guide to executive coaching. Drawing on her twenty years of experience and direct research with an elite international clientele, renowned CEO coach Susan Battley offers step-by-step advice for achieving the same extraordinary results that top leaders get from executive coaching. Filled with insider tips, engaging real-life cases, and handy checklists and sample documents, Coached to Lead will help anyone who considers working with a professional coach to make smart decisions that maximize valuable resources. Battley reveals all the insider secrets about coaching—how to determine your coaching readiness, how to choose the right coach, and how to use a winning five-step coaching model. She covers all the issues commonly raised as well as not-so-obvious situations and troubleshooting. |
| an economic buyer is a person who: Million Dollar Speaking: The Professional's Guide to Building Your Platform Alan Weiss, 2010-10-08 Make your move into, or improve your position in, the powerful world of professional speaking If you think you have what it takes to speak professionally, or you've already been doing so with insufficient reward, now is the time to make your move. Bestselling business author and Professional Speaking Hall of Fame member Alan Weiss offers the inside advice you need to turn your talent into a high-paying career—from honing your delivery skills to building a business. In Million Dollar Speaking, you’ll learn the critical skills of Dealing with difficult crowds Creating powerful speeches Targeting high-potential markets Creating a star reputation Setting fees that reflect your outstanding value Perfecting platform skills—making ¬them the best in the business Expanding your business through diversification Weiss has packed the guide with tips, resources, helpful examples, and checklists that make it easy for you to keep a record of your progress. Whether you're a trainer, workshop leader, or consultant, Million Dollar Speaking has what you need to get on the paid public-speaking circuit in no time. |
| an economic buyer is a person who: Proposal Guide for Business Development Professionals Larry Newman, 2001 |
| an economic buyer is a person who: The International Dictionary of Artificial Intelligence William J. Raynor, 1999 This work shows how to capture the business of mid-sized companies - from the basic concepts of foreign exhange to prospecting the corporate client. The author shows the finer points of foreign exchange regimes recognized by the IMF and that exchange rates are a matter of government restrictions |
| an economic buyer is a person who: The Art of Agile Development James Shore, Shane Warden, 2021-10-12 Most companies developing software employ something they call Agile. But there's widespread misunderstanding of what Agile is and how to use it. If you want to improve your software development team's agility, this comprehensive guidebook's clear, concrete, and detailed guidance explains what to do and why, and when to make trade-offs. In this thorough update of the classic Agile how-to guide, James Shore provides no-nonsense advice on Agile adoption, planning, development, delivery, and management taken from over two decades of Agile experience. He brings the latest ideas from Extreme Programming, Scrum, Lean, DevOps, and more into a cohesive whole. Learn how to successfully bring Agile development to your team and organization--or discover why Agile might not be for you. This book explains how to: Improve agility: create the conditions necessary for Agile to succeed and scale in your organization Focus on value: work as a team, understand priorities, provide visibility, and improve continuously Deliver software reliably: share ownership, decrease development costs, evolve designs, and deploy continuously Optimize value: take ownership of product plans, budgets, and experiments--and produce market-leading software |
| an economic buyer is a person who: Organizational Consulting Alan Weiss, 2003-02-24 Organizational Consulting ist ein praktischer Leitfaden für Personalleiter, interne Berater und andere Fachleute im Bereich unternehmensinterne Veränderungen. Er erläutert, was interne Berater tun müssen, um ihre Glaubwürdigkeit zu stärken, interne Marketingfähigkeiten zu entwickeln und die für ihre Arbeit geeigneten Methoden anzuwenden. Das Buch erläutert praxiserprobte Verfahren, mit deren Hilfe interne Berater und Mitarbeiter im Personalwesen sich durch hervorragende Arbeitsergebnisse auszeichnen, ihre Karriere vorantreiben und zu einem Gewinn für ihr Unternehmen werden können. Zu den behandelten Kernthemen gehört u.a. der Aufbau einer erfolgversprechenden Arbeitsumgebung und die Einführung von Interaktionen mit Gleichrangigen. Autor Alan Weiss ist ein erfahrener externer Consultant, der Hunderte renommierter Unternehmen in aller Welt zu seinen Kunden zählt, so z.B. Mercedes-Benz, Hewlett-Packard, Merck und Chase. |
| an economic buyer is a person who: Indian Business Scenario Opportunities & Challenges M.Ganesh Babu Dr.Bandaru Srinivasa Rao G.Vani Dr.SivakumarDeene R.Rajkumar, |
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B. Economic needs - The best value for their money. 1. Economic needs - the buyer’s needs to purchase the most satisfying product for their money.
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